NASA and Woods Hole Linkup Connects Space and Sea Explorers

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
> Jan. 25, 2007
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> John Yembrick
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-0602
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> Nicole Cloutier
> Johnson Space Center, Houston
> 281-483-511
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> NASA AND WOODS HOLE LINKUP CONNECTS SPACE AND SEA EXPLORERS
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> Two extreme explorers will connect in a unique call Friday, Jan. 26,
> linking the depths of the ocean with the heights of Earth orbit. NASA
> and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mass., will host the
> ultra-long distance call between International Space Station
> astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams and marine biologist Tim Shank in
> the Alvin research submersible.
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> The call will take place at 1:45 p.m. CST, and will be broadcast
> tape-delayed on NASA Television between 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.,
> immediately following the conclusion of a station status media
> briefing from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. Williams,
> orbiting 220 miles overhead, and Shank, conducting research two miles
> undersea in the Alvin submersible, will compare notes on science and
> exploration. Additionally, they will field questions submitted by
> students and educators.
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> Williams, a Massachusetts native and commander in the U.S. Navy,
> served as a diver and helicopter pilot prior to being selected as an
> astronaut. Williams was a member of a NASA crew in 2002 that lived
> underwater for nine days in the Aquarius habitat off the Florida
> coast. She boarded the space station on Dec. 11, 2006, as a flight
> engineer for the Expedition 14 crew, joining Commander Michael
> Lopez-Alegria and fellow Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin. Williams
> will spend six months on the complex.
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> Shank, a marine biologist in the Woods Hole's Department of Biology,
> is currently conducting research diving in the Alvin at the
> hydrothermal vent field on the East Pacific Rise. He is leading a
> National Science Foundation-funded research expedition as part of the
> RIDGE2000 program. Alvin is owned by the Navy and operated by Woods
> Hole as a part of the National Deep Submergence Facility.
>
> For NASA TV downlink, schedules and streaming video information, and
> more information about the space station, visit:
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> http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
> http://www.nasa.gov/station
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